People with Blue Eyes were Genetically Mutated 10,000 Years Ago.

Blue-eyed Humans Have A Single, Common Ancestor
ScienceDaily (Jan. 31, 2008) — New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen
have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the
planet today.

The mutation of brown eyes to blue represents neither a positive nor a negative mutation. It is one of several mutations such as hair colour,
baldness, freckles and beauty spots, which neither increases nor reduces a human’s chance of survival. As Professor Eiberg says, “it simply shows
that nature is constantly shuffling the human genome, creating a genetic cocktail of human chromosomes and trying out different changes as it does
so.”

Originally posted by BBTBE
What about people with one blue and one brown or green eye? Surely this disproves this theory?

What is the genetic mutation

“Originally, we all had brown eyes”, said Professor Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. “But a genetic mutation
affecting the OCA2 gene in our chromosomes resulted in the creation of a “switch”, which literally “turned off” the ability to produce brown
eyes”. The OCA2 gene codes for the so-called P protein, which is involved in the production of melanin, the pigment that gives colour to our hair,
eyes and skin. The “switch”, which is located in the gene adjacent to OCA2 does not, however, turn off the gene entirely, but rather limits its
action to reducing the production of melanin in the iris – effectively “diluting” brown eyes to blue. The switch’s effect on OCA2 is very
specific therefore. If the OCA2 gene had been completely destroyed or turned off, human beings would be without melanin in their hair, eyes or skin
colour – a condition known as albinism.

Your own citation states that a mutation "took place 6-10,000 years ago."

It goes on to say that it doesn't mean anything, execept that “it simply shows that nature is constantly shuffling the human genome, creating a
genetic cocktail of human chromosomes and trying out different changes as it does so.”

Originally posted by IvanZana
What the heck happened on earth around 10,500 b.c?

I don't know but 10,000 years ago is approx. 8000BC.

This isn't the only genetic mutation that occurred at that time in history. Three major staple foods (wheat, rice, potatoes) all underwent a
beneficial genetic mutation or hybridation at around this approx. time. I started a thread about it, theorizing that it was no coincidence that these
mutations all happened at about the same time on different continents.

Now, this article says that blue eyes are a genetic modification at this same time. Granted, the blue eyes do not aid survival in any way but the
mutation of the staple crops did provide a boost to early civilizations. Whatever was happening around 8000BC, it certainly was a time when a lot of
beneficial mutations were taking place.

People say in 2012 something wil happen. i've heard everything from alien invasion to the end of the world to new world order takeover and global war
to the rapture and return of christ. I can't call it but i do think something #ed Up will happen in the next few years leading to 2012..........but
the blue eyed thing...is quite interesting but i again can't call it.

haa, i can imagine the first person who was born with blue eyes would have been worshipped, or sacrificed. wierd. what if a person is born with 12
digits in these times, and his kids had 12 toes and fingers also, how would we take it?

i'm one of 8 children. both my parents had brown eyes.
this is how we all popped out in colored order:-

blue
brown
blue
brown
blue
blue
brown
brown

a pattern? yes i think so.
i found my brothers and sisters with blue eyes are less connected to the world emotionly and more connected in a realistic way and vice versa.

people with brown eyes, i've found are at the emotional extremes or ends of the line. like either empathetic or completely lacking empathy.
where people with blue eyes are more down to earth, concerned more with themselves or the state of their environment.

Originally posted by spearhead
i'm one of 8 children. both my parents had brown eyes.
this is how we all popped out in colored order:-

blue
brown
blue
brown
blue
blue
brown
brown

a pattern? yes i think so.
i found my brothers and sisters with blue eyes are less connected to the world emotionly and more connected in a realistic way and vice versa.

people with brown eyes, i've found are at the emotional extremes or ends of the line. like either empathetic or completely lacking empathy.
where people with blue eyes are more down to earth, concerned more with themselves or the state of their environment.

just a observation.

Just saying, in my opinion the colour of the eyes has "nothing" to do with personality.

6,000 to 10,000 years by genentic research says so? And how many people back from these time periods were also tested? I'm not convinced by these
findings of anything other than speculations. We can also speculate someone else came here from another planet and that these were the biblical
fallen. So, from that we could say that the beast or angels etc. came here around 6,000 years ago. This would fit in with the period of Adamic people.
I'm not a bible thumper, but it might suggest some parallels through writings and knowledge.

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